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The Man of Science vs. The Man of Faith: Richard Dawkins Spars with Stephen Colbert

By Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson

…or embodied cultural trope. Like Hulk Hogan, who played the blond-haired, blue-eyed All-American golden boy, or Stone Cold Steve Austin, who played the leather-clad, hard-drinking, hard-living rebel, Ken Ham enacts a powerful cultural trope: the Bible believing man of faith, who defends God’s Word against its godless, secular humanist assailants. In this role he presents arguments that look, on the surface, like real arguments, and he presents th…

Conservative Activist Says Tea Party Movement Needs “Reverence to God”

By Sarah Posner

…ts tour the country in a big, luxury motor coach painted in red, white and blue, sporting the slogan, “Keep Your Hands Off My Health Care!” With its spiffy graphics and tech-savvy persona, the aesthetics of Americans for Prosperity are reminiscent of the Christian Coalition events and materials of the mid-1990s. Hardage dismissed the leaderless grassroots movement meme about the tea party movement, agitating instead for leaders like Reed. With Ree…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…olor further calls into question the use of this abusive practice.” As the numbers have grown, so have the numbers of critics, Wired reports, citing a series of “scathing reports and documentaries” released in 2012 by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on…

Pop-Eye: Global Jesus on Film

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…the historical Jesuses of the History Channel. It’s not just the lack of a blue-eyed, Jeffrey Hunter-Jesus in King of Kings in these international accounts, but a wholly other way of seeing that dominates many Jesus films around the world. Films produced in the United States such as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ or Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ have revived ancient conflicts over the dual-nature of the Incarnation. The S…

Trump May Be “a Big Fan of Hindu,” But Hindus Are Running—and Winning—as Democrats

By Murali Balaji

…Jayapal and Ro Khanna. To see how Hindus could be a major part a potential blue wave, look no further than New Jersey’s 7th congressional district, where longtime Republican Rep. Leonard Lance is in serious danger. One of his most outspoken Democratic challengers is Goutam Jois, a Hindu American attorney, social justice advocate, and former Youth Governor of New Jersey. Jois was recently endorsed by the Hindu American Political Action Committee. J…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…and all the fool Negroes of the country believe that God is white-skinned, blue eyed, straight-haired, projected nosed, compressed lipped and finely robed white gentleman sitting upon a throne somewhere in the heavens. Turner, and later Malcolm X, along with other Black religious thinkers, are correct that African Americans have the right to represent God in their own image. However, after we’ve removed pictures of white Jesus, what are the theolo…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…merica a long time ago. We can proclaim, “God bless America,” until we are blue in the face, but the truth of the matter is, our ideas of blessings are all upside down. We see money, wealth and power as blessings from God, when in reality they have everything to do with a human “will to power.” Medieval mystic Meister Eckhart might have been talking about “God Bless America” theology when he said, some 700 years ago: “Some want to see God with the…

God Promises to Open our Graves: A Theology for the Age of AIDS

By César J. Baldelomar

…so hot!” As for the ideal media male, he is tall, muscular, usually white, blue eyes, short hair, clean-shaven, and free of blemishes—healthy-looking. With these ideals in mind, is it any wonder that my high school students made the choices they did? Perhaps “Natasha” and “Mark” reminded the “healthy-looking” students too much of human fragility at a time when they perceived themselves to be invincible. Or, on a more mundane level, the sick and ug…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…nce our picture of the Muslim world. A land of mosque-going, blond-haired, blue-eyed Slavs seems a bit too fantastic for me to believe except without seeing it. Muslims too have a tendency to racialize themselves: We’re brown and black, Asian and African, but rarely white—and European only with difficulty. Many Muslims view the Middle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, whe…

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…with faith in the midst of it all—although Therese Borchard’s book Beyond Blue came out a couple years later. I wrote Bipolar Faith to show this experience—one with bipolar II; one that has faith, doubts, loses faith and finds it again and again; and one that reflects the particularity of African American experiences. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? It’s complicated. I want readers to understand that mental health challen…